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BED DAVENPORT.

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lLtID THEOIIIORE Gt. WETEN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, T0

E SENG- COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF ILLINGIS.

BED-DAVENPORT.

pecication of Letters Patent.

application niet .august t, 1915. serial no. tacit.

This invention relates to improvements in so-called bed davenports which when closed, constitute a davenport, sofa, arm chair or similar piece of furniture, and when opened provide a complete sleeping bed. The present invention relates more particularly to a structure of the character defined in which the seat and back of the davenport, loungeor chair are hinged together and are adapted to be moved outwardly from beteween the arms of said device, and become inverted to form a part of a mattress support or bed of standard length havin a Width lequal to the distance between 51e arms of the article of furniture of which they constitute a part.. l

In the accompanying drawings lllustrating the invention:

Figure -1- is a view in side elevation of a bed davenport constructed in accordance with my invention.

lFig. -2- is a front elevation of the same.

lFig. -3- is a vertical section of the same on the line 3 3 of-Fig. 2.

lFig. -4.- is a view similar to Fig. 3- showlng the upper portion of the seat and the back extended to coact with the seat bottom to constitute a bed, and showing said upper seat portion and back in dotted lines y 1n the primary position to which they are tti btt

moved preparatory to being positioned as shown in full lines in` sald ligure.

-5- and -6- are respectivelv a 'top plan View and aside elevation of a hinge emp oyed for pivotally connecting the top and bottom seat portlons together at their side rails.

lEig. 7 is a fragmentary top plan view of the bed davenport. d

TheV device comprises a suitable frame preferably of wood consisting of four corner posts l and 2 for the front and back respectively, which are connected together by suitable side rails 3, rear cross-pieces 4 and front cross-pieces 5 all arranged below the plane occupied by-the seat and are further connected together by means of the rear panels 6, the side arms 7 and side panels preferably covering the said side rails 3. Secured to the said side rails or other convenient parts of the sofa-ends 3 are hori zontally disposed supporting bars 8, formed preferabl of angle iron which 'a suitable spring fa ric is stretched upon. Said supporting bars 8 are of less length than the depth of the lounge between the rails 4 and 5 and the space between the forward ends of the same and the forward end hinge members 10, preferably also formed of angle lron.

lPivotally connected to the said pieces 10 of angle iron are similar hinge-members 11 which are secured to the side rails 12 of the underside of the seat frame. These side rails 12 may be connected together by means of cross-rails 13 and 14; respectively. Associated with the hinge members 11, and of which they practically form a continuation are angle iron strips 15, similar to the supporting bars 8 and which are secured to said side rails 12, each pair of hingemembers is connected by a plate 16 having two quadrant slots 17 disposed concentric with pivot pins 18 mounted in said plates 16 and in the vertical fianges of said hingemembers 10 and 11. provided with a projection 19 engaged in said slots 17 for limiting the pivotal movement of said hinge members relatively to said plate. Thus when the said hinge memo bers 10 and 11 are disposed in the same horizontal plane shown in Fig. -6-, the plate 16 constitutes a rigid support for the hinge lnember 11 upon the hinge member 10, it being obvious that the plate 16 is incapable of further pivotal movement.

When the seat is in position for use as such, as shown in Fig. -3-, the plates 16 become vertically disposed and the pins or projections 19 become disposed in the other ends of the slots 17 and in this position the upper edges of the vertical flanges of the hinge-members 10 and 11 rest upon each other. This construction of hinge is particularly advantageous in that it produces a space to be maintained between the ends of Patented @t une 1L, TATA.

the side rails 12 and the opposed cross-pieces 5 of the sofa-frame in which a suitable covering of leather or similar material is adapted to be received and injury thereto prevented.

The movable back frame of the structure comprises the side rails 20 connected together by means of cross-pieces 21 and 22, the latter preferably being of greater length han the distance between said side rails 2O nd being adapted to project over and rest upon the rear corner posts 2 and the upper endj portions of the arms 7 of the frame when the back is closed, as shown in Fig. -3-. It will be seen that in this instance the said cross-piece 22 is slightly angularly disposed relatively to the top or inner edges of the side rails 20.andthat the lower or front edges of said rails 20 are also inclined to the said top or rear edges thereof, the back being, when in closed position, inclined as shown in Fig. -3-. Secured to the lower edges of the side rails 20 are rails 23, formed of angle iron which project beyond the lower ends of said rails and also beyond their intersection with the rear ends of the rails 15, at Ywhich points the rails 23 and 15 are pivotally secured by means of the pivot pins 24 passing through the vertical flanges thereof. rlhe lateral flanges of all of the rails 8, 15 and 23 respectively, rest upon the side rails of those elements to which they are secured, and as will be seen from Fig. -4- the lateral flange of the extension portion of the angle iron 23 resting upon the lateral flange of the supporting bars 15 when the upper seat portion and back are disposed in the open position shown in Fig. L1- lin order that when in this position the upper faces of the angle irons 15 and 23 may be Hush over their combined length that portion of the angle iron 15 which is overlapped by the extension portions of the angle irons 23 are off-set as shown at 25, a distance equal to the thickness of the horizontal iange of the rail 23. Secured to the side rails 20 contiguous to the cross-pieces 22 are pivoted legs 26 which are adapted to swing to vertical position as the said back is turned to the position shown in full lines in Fig. .-4."-, to constitute supports for the outer or free end of said back, said arms 25 being adapted to swing preferably by gravity to the position shown in full lines in Fig. -3 when the back is in closed position.

1t will also be seen that the opposing end portions of the rails 12 and 20 are angularly cut away so that they will substantially meet when the back and. upper seat portions are disposed in closed position as shown in Fig. -3-. The back and seat frames will constitute suitable" supports for base fabric and upholstery for providing a soft cushioned seat and back for the davenport, lounge or chair when said parts are in closed position, said vupholstery becoming inverted when said parts are in open position.

As will be apparent, the bed consists of three principal sections, namely, the stationary head-section, the middle-section, and the foot-section, and in addition, the narrow spacing-section formed by the couplingplates 16 and the hinge-members 10 and 11, to all intents and purposes being but extensions or continuations of the rail-s 8 and 15 respectively. Unlike other beds of this class, cross-rails for connecting the outer ends of the side-rails 8 and 23, are not required though they may be used. In the present instance, however, the woven-wire fabric 9, forming the mattress-support, is merely stretched between the side-rails of the several sections and the hinge-members and is therefore capable of folding or flexing with the bed at the various joints of the latter.

The mattress 9 is suitably tied to the wire fabric or frame-work at proper points so that it will fold up as shown in Fig. -3 when the parts are in closed position, and will not become displaced during the pivotal movement of said parts from closed .to open position, or open to closed position, respectively.

lt will be seen that weight of the seat and back portions when in open or bed position will tend tobreak down the pivotal connection between the side rails thereof, and that this will be resisted by the bearing `of the extension portions of the side rails 23 which overlap the side-rails 15 so that when in open or bed position the side rails 15 and 23 will constitute a very rigid su 'port for the weight of the occupant of t e bed.

By reference to Fig. 3, wherein the device is illustrated in closed or sofa-form, it will be seen thatthe spacing-plates 16 serve to permit the middle bed-section to fold over and upon the stationary head-section formed by the bars or rails 8, and to space these parts a suiiicient distance apart to accommodate the folded mattress and other bedding employed. It will further. be seen that when the parts are thus positioned, the extensions of the side rails 23 of the foot-section-that is, those portions extending beyond their points of pivot 24 with the rails 15 of the middle-section-rest upon the rails 8 of the head-section and thus support the weight of the back as well as that of the rear edge of the seat and also combine with the spacingplates 16, with which they ap roximately coincide in length, to maintain tlie head and middle-sections apart to receive themattress and other bedding. The mattress, it will be observed, is thus divided or folded about in thirds-the two rear thirds or those above the foot and middle-sections being folded ganarse compactly one upon the other and lying between the head and middle-sections and the outer third becoming positioned in rear oli the back and hence the foot-section.

My said device is extremely simple in construction and relatively cheap, besides being very easily operated and requiring no manipulation oi' locking devices such as are employed in substantially all of the bed davenports now on the market The vdevice presents a very neat appearance when in closed position, and may be freely ornamented as to all of the exposed wood-work and any desired kind of upholstery provided therein to provide the greatest of comfort for the article as an -article of furniture, while at the same time the structural characteristics thereof when converted into a bed are such as to provide the greatest degree of comfort reasonably to be expected from a device of this dual character.

l claim as my invention:

1. ln a davenport bed, the combination, with a main-rame-comprising opposite ends, of a head-section tixedly mounted in the main-frame between the ends, a middle-section, a narrow spacing and hinging means loosely connected at opposite ends to the adjacent ends of the head and middle-sections, whereby the said middle-section is adapted to fold inwardly and over the headsection between the ends and the fronts of the two sections spaced apart by the spacingsection, a foot-section having its side rails pivoted to the ends of those of the middlesection and extended beyond their pivots a distance approximately agreeing with the length of the spacing and. hinging means, whereby when the bed is folded the foot-section is positioned angularly with relation to the middle-section, the side bars oit the foot-section extend below the middle-section and rest upon the head-section and the middle and head-sections are maintained in substantially parallel relation and combine to form an intermediate bedding-space, a seat carried by the middle-section, and a back carried by the toot-section..

2. lin a davenport bed, the combination, with the main-trame comprising opposite ends, of opposite horizontal sup orting-rails secured to the inner surfaces o the ends ot the main-frame and terminating short oit the front of the same, hinge-members also connected to 'said ends and forming continuations of the supporting-rails and terminating at the :front of the main-frame, a superimposed seat-frame, side-rails connected to the opposite ends thereof and terminating at their front ends coincident, with said supporting-rails of the main-frame and short of the front of the seat-trame, companion hinge-members secured to said seat-trame and terminating at the front' thereof and forming continuations ot the side-rails, a spacing-plate pivotally connected to each pair of hinge-members and having but a limited pivotal movement in each direction and serving to space the hinge-members apart,

-a sofa-back trame abutting the rear of the sofa-seat trame, legs connected to the backframe and adapted to support the same when inverted in front of the main-frame, siderails secured to the opposite ends ot thel back-frame and extending below the same and resting upon the supporting-rails ofname in presence ot' two subscribing wit-' nesses.

THEODRE G. WEYER.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR M.. GARDNER, lDAvrD dnrzmcnn." 

